I’m observing some similar muttering in the JavaScript community with Promises. Chain them incorrectly and you get an error with no actionable context.

The most popular 3rd party promise framework in JavaScript collects extra cause and effect data when you run the code in development mode. It helps but it still isn’t always enough.

I fundamentally don’t understand how people still think writing tools and libraries is the same process as writing production code. Which is to say: I wrote it, I understand it, ship it!

It’s a profoundly different process. I don’t think we give enough kudos to the people who can do it well.

I keep telling my ambitious jr devs the same two pieces of advice. The one relevant here is: nobody is going to look at your code until something is broken. Which means they are already having a bad day. Don’t make it worse.